Find out what other readers of a particular author enjoy. The closer the writers are on the map that’s generated, the more likely a reader will enjoy both.

Literature-map is an online service that provides names of authors based on your search keywords. If you like an author and constantly read his or her works and want to discover other similar authors that more or less have the same style of writing or probably focus on the same themes as your original author then all you need to do is type in the name of the author and Literature Map will provide you with a diagram like map of the names of other similar authors.

So, if I were to to literature-map.com, I would get the following screen.

I could then type in John Grisham, one of my favorite authors name and then click on the continue button. I would then the following diagram below:

Literature-map is a great web-site for teachers. You can use it with your students to look for authors similar to the ones in your/their curriculum.